Adapted from Faye Humbards version found online revised December 2008 by Diana Knight Dictionaries are books that list all the words in a language Dictionary words are organized in ID: 645763
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Slide1
How is a Dictionary Organized?
Adapted from Faye
Humbard’s
version found online – revised December 2008 by Diana KnightSlide2
Dictionaries are books that list all the words in a language. Slide3
Dictionary words are organized in alphabetical order
. To use a dictionary
easily
, you must know how to alphabetize words.Slide4
Since there are so many words in a dictionary, guide words
are used to help you locate a word quickly.
What are
guide words
?Slide5
Guide words are found at the top of each page.
They tell you the first
and
last
word that is found on that page.Slide6
How do guide words help you find a word quickly?
Instead of looking at each word on a page, which could take forever, you just look at the
guide
words.
Then
use what you know about alphabetizing words to decide if your word would be found on that page.Slide7
Let’s see what that means. . .
Let’s pretend we are looking up the word,
science
.
First
we would turn to the
S
section.
Slide8
Then we would use the guide words and what we know about alphabetizing words to decide the correct page in the S
section.Slide9
We would look at the guide words at the top of each page and decide between which ones our word would come in alphabetical order.Slide10
Let’s do that for the word science
. . .Which one
of these pages would contain the word
science
?Slide11
The page with the guide words-stamp - summer
Or the page with the guide words-
sandwich - seventy
scienceSlide12
Dictionary Definitions
What do they mean?Slide13
Have you ever looked up the definition for a word in the dictionary?
If so, then you might have been confused by some of the parts of that definition.Slide14
Today, we’re going to learn what each part of a definition means.Slide15
This is a definition for flag:
flag (flag)
noun
A piece of cloth with a pattern or symbol of a country, an organization, etc.
verb
To stop, or to signal.
We flagged down the police officer
.Slide16
flag
(flag) noun
A piece of cloth with a pattern or symbol of a country, an organization, etc.
verb
To stop, or to signal.
We flagged down the police officer.
The word being defined is followed by the pronunciation in parenthesis.Slide17
flag (flag)
noun
A piece of cloth with a pattern or symbol of a country, an organization, etc.
verb
To stop, or to signal.
We flagged down the police officer.
The first word tells the word’s part of speechSlide18
noun A piece of cloth with a pattern or symbol of a country, an organization, etc.
verb
To stop, or to signal.
We flagged down the police officer.
The next section is the actual definition of the word.Slide19
noun A piece of cloth with a pattern or symbol of a
country, an organization, etc.
verb
To stop, or to signal.
We flagged down the police officer.
Finally, you might see a sentence showing how the word is used. Especially if the use is not the most common for the word.Slide20
Let’s see what you’ve learned!
mischief (miss-chif
)
noun
Playful behavior that may cause annoyance or harm to others.
My brother is always up to some sort of mischief.Slide21
book (buk
) noun
A set of pages that are bound together.
verb
To arrange for something ahead of time.
We’ve booked a vacation in Mexico.Slide22
Now you know the definition of definition
!